Found in Translation: Real-Time Automatic Translations on Calls

Stringing together the various strands of voice recognition technologies, Israel-based Lexifone says it has cracked the problem travelers and traders have struggled with for eons: real-time translation from almost any language to almost any other language.

Billing itself as the world’s first in-call automatic translator, Lexifone says its service works on any landline or mobile device, and doesn’t even need an internet connection to operate.

“It’s all focused on how to interpret telephone conversations,” says VP Sales Itay Sagie, adding that the voice translation you hear on the other end is computer generated, “but it sounds very good.”